Fight For the Rights of Women - Tara Aguiar

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Date
 Event
 Description
1718
 Sweden
 Female taxpaying members of city are allowed to vote in local elections and general elections
1893
 New Zealand
 women won the right to vote
1920
 USA
 the 19th Amendment changed to allow women the right to vote
1946
 USA
 Eleanor Roosevelt elected chairperson of the UN human rights commission
1994
violence against women act passes
2000
 USA
 Hillary Clinton becomes the first former First Lady elected Senator
2008 - present day
 USA
 Hilary Clinton became the first woman to run for presidency
The fight for the rights of women over time has established a base ground in which women have taken the steps in which to form equal rights and equality throughout the world. It has established traditions in which women are free to choose what they want to achieve, work their way up the ‘ladder’ to a better position and have the right to vote and expect the same rights as others without discrimination of gender, age or race. It was difficult at the beginning, men were used to women staying at home, making their lives easier while they went out to be the ‘breadwinner’ of the family. In present days, the roles seem to be beginning to reverse or families are taking equal roles in both the workplace and at home. Women are now aware that the ‘glass ceiling’ which we have been trying to penetrate for years was just a barrier put up by ourselves, stopping us from achieving higher than what we and others expect of us yet are easily within reach. Women such as Hillary Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt showed us that we are able to extent to that point and grasp the equality within our hands.